[Pest]

Are they all named Christian? With only 48 people, there is bound to be some inbreeding.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Because of you, I learned about Mutiny on the Bounty. :)

[FeliciaCat]

So is everybody on this Island related? weird.

[Prof Engineer]

Cool a new ham radio op is born.

[Thinkin' Gal]

establishing a puritanical community in which dancing and drinking were forbidden.

Now the islanders fear the life of Pitcairn might be coming to an end. Last month seven men pleaded not guilty before a British convened court to multiple charges of sexual assault on women and children.

Was 'no sexual assault' on the list along with no dancing and drinking? Maybe there was a clerical error.

[Our man in washington]

If Nordhoff and Hall's research is to be believed, Pitcairn Island didn't start off as a puritanical colony. The colony included some Tahitians who came along. The Tahitian men and English had a fight over land rights on the island, which resulted in the death of all the Tahitian men and five of the original nine Englishmen. Nearly all the Tahitian women survived.

The remaining Englishmen soon all got addicted to alcohol, thanks to one of their party who could brew grog from roots. Eventually, three of the four Englishmen died, and the surviving Englishman (John Adams) established the puritanical rules. At the point, everyone else was either a Tahitian women or a child with an English father and Tahitian mother.

John Adams had seen how alcohol had nearly destroyed the colony. Now, I have nothing against raising a glass myself, but after reading Nordhoff and Hall's book, I could see why Adams would have laid down such rules.

[Ditto]

Nadine Christian, and Emily Rose Christian, born on Sept. 14, 2003, the first child born on Pitcairn for 17 years!

[Saundra Duffy]

Anyone have photos of this place? I heard that Youth With A Mission was going to build a road or something.

[RedWhiteBlue]

More details on this story. (Old articles)

[jennyp]

You-need-to-send-her-a-nice-card PING.